CNN’s Chris Cillizza contended Friday that President Donald Trump plans to campaign for Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore next week by holding a rally in Pensacola, Florida.

In a piece entitled, “Donald Trump is going to campaign for Roy Moore. Because, of course,” Cillizza, who recently came to CNN from The Washington Post, claimed the president’s real purpose for the trip’s location is to hit neighboring Alabama’s media market.

“Pensacola — for you amateur geographers out there — is 25 miles from the Alabama border,” he wrote. “It’s closer to the capital of Alabama (164 miles to Montgomery) than it is to the capital of Florida (196 miles to Tallahassee). And the Pensacola-Mobile media market reaches more than 15% of the state.”

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“Trump’s Pensacola rally won’t be specifically for Moore,” Cillizza conceded, but “the proximity of Pensacola to the Alabama border — and the attention Trump’s trip will draw — is sure to rev up the pro-Trump conservatives Moore will need to turn out on December 12.”

“The White House said earlier this week the president is not planning any trip to Alabama to campaign for Roy Moore,” he said. “So while that’s technically true, it’s just barely true. The president is now apparently backing Roy Moore and apparently campaigning for him in the airwaves of Alabama.”

Like many in the mainstream media, Cillizza, in his column, vastly overstated the breadth of allegations that have been made against Moore.

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“He has been accused by several women of pursuing inappropriate sexual relationships with them when they were between 14 and 19 and he was in his early 30s,” Cillizza wrote.

He added the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (who supported Moore’s opponent in the primary) and a “bevy of Republican elected officials” have “disavowed Moore.”

What Cillizza failed to relate is that Alabama’s GOP governor, Kay Ivey, and its entire Republican congressional delegation, save Sen. Richard Shelby (who also supported Moore’s opponent in the primary), have not.

Moore’s former Republican primary rival Rep. Mo Brooks announced this week that he already voted for the judge by absentee ballot.

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Brooks, a former prosecutor, also explained in a radio interview on Tuesday why he doubted the former Alabama chief justice’s accusers, of whom there are not many, but two.

“What you have is the mainstream left-wing socialist Democrat news media trying to distort the evidence to cause people to reach the conclusion that Roy Moore engaged in unlawful conduct with a minor and my analysis of the evidence is that is not the case,” Brooks said on “The Dale Jackson Show,” on WVNN.

“Most importantly, the media likes to say ‘well, there are nine complainers.’ Seven of them aren’t complainers,” the congressman added. “In fact, I would be calling seven of those ladies as witnesses on behalf of Roy Moore on the issue of whether he is engaged in any kind of unlawful conduct.”

“There are only two that have asserted that Roy Moore engaged in unlawful conduct,” Brooks continued. “One of those is clearly a liar because that one forged the ‘love, Roy Moore’ part of a yearbook in order to try to for whatever reason get at Roy Moore and win this seat for the Democrats and there’s a lot more to it as to why I believe that the evidence is almost incontrovertible about whether the yearbook was forged.”

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The representative noted that left only one accuser.

“Well, that one witness’ testimony is in direct and stark contrast with that of the other seven ladies, who said that he acted like an officer and a gentleman,” he stated.

As reported by The Western Journal, before leaving for his Thanksgiving break last week, Trump offered words of support to Moore.

Asked about the accusations of sexual misconduct against the candidate, which allegedly occurred in the 1970s, Trump responded: “Let me just tell you, Roy Moore denies it. That’s all I can say, and by the way, he totally denies it.”

“You have to listen to him also,” the president added. “I can tell you one thing for sure, we don’t need a liberal person in there, a Democrat.”

Politico reported Wednesday that while Trump so far has made no plans to campaign with Moore in Alabama, he may reach out to voters with robocalls, emails and text messages urging them to get out and vote for the Republican candidate.

Moore has rebounded in the polls in the Senate race after falling behind Democrat Doug Jones in the wake of The Washington Post’s Nov. 9 story alleging sexual misconduct in 1979.

A JMC Analytics poll published Wednesday found Moore with a 5-point lead over Jones. The same polling firm had Jones ahead by 4 points shortly after The Post story.

Multiple polls released over the last week also showed Moore in the lead from 2 to 6 points.